Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Is Luni's Lakuli the Newest Street Anthem?

LUNI (pronounced "loony") is an acronym for "Like you
never imagined". It is the name of this twenty-eight year old Lagos-bred, Benin-born Nigerian hip-hop artist.

A
distinctive delivery and a flair for witty, deceptively intelligent
lyrics and a uniquely exciting delivery make this particular act
particularly absorbing.

Beginning
as a young teen clumsily mimicking tupac in the privacy of his living
room while struggling to recite the lyrics, his love for rap music grew
deeper and with that the list of rappers added to his daily menu of
hip-hop. This list included hip-hop greats Biggy, Jay-z and Nas.

He began to pencil down his own songs and developed an acute sense of lyricism.
He began recording his own music in 2001. He went on to university and blossomed into a truly prolific rhyme junkie.

He
was at this time called "thrill" and earned the first hint at
commercial success came in 2004 when a love song he recorded called
"Downwitcha" was given by a friend (without his knowledge or permission)
to a radio DJ (Kaduna’s Supreme fm's top DJ Umar socials) and was voted
no1 on the Supreme FM chart.

The song became an anthem and the then "thrill" performed the track at several shows,
alongside some of Nigeria's biggest acts, the largest being M-TEL's nationwide "Music talk".

He
later became known as LUNI after graduating, working a 9 to 5 and
returning to the game with a deeper mind and sharper delivery. LUNI has
begun fast making waves in the music industry due to his undeniable
talent even before the release of his first commercial single! Now the
shackles are off and one can only wait with breath held in anticipation
for music, like you never imagined.

VS1: Move like a ninja club banger ginjah/so underground like
sai we be ginger?/birthday now we deliver/d cash u possess we came tu deliver/i
m going in like wheezy on a joint/so drag ma rhyme slow like easy on a joint/i
m takin over rap cassanova/last bustop so get off ma coaster/no tamo, salamo/Oshamo
am a faji gan /supa dupa flow n d ladies know/my rap like my wipe game,do it
like a pro/